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Building Narratives in Intervention With and Without Technology

I have been lucky to have the opportunity to hear Gloria Soto speak on a couple of occasions about developing narrative skills in children w...

Starting next week (February 5th) .. just for BBA and PDDB students. Come by for help with your English, whether to improve a skill you ...

One of the best tools for success at university is having a positive relationship with your teachers. This entails establishing a strong...

This week's Academic Language Development Group will be discussing vocabulary, with a focus on idioms and informal language. Friday...

We continue our discussion of narratives in children this week with some discussion of narrative skills in children who have deficits in lan...

Did you discover any fantastic BOOKS this summer? Share your Reading Recommendations with us!

Welcome to 4M in 2015! I'm ready for an amazing year with my 4M Munchkins. Are you ready to travel along the yellow brick road of lear...

Both discussion groups are meeting this week -- today and tomorrow. At today's Academic Language Development Group there will be a works...

This week is student success week, a great opportunity to learn some strategies that will help you be more successful in your studies and h...

Children’s learning of narrative structures is in part dependent upon how the adults around them shape their narrative attempts. Children l...

Happy New Year to all returning students. We hope you had a great winter holiday and have returned to VIU with energy and enthusiasm. Englis...

The iBookstore Formatting Guidelines of September, 2014 lists books in these languages as not yet eligible for distribution: Amharic, Arabi...

There is a rich history of storytelling in every culture I can think of. Story telling is used to communicate information, teach lessons, t...

Resources to help improve your English General Resources Digital www.viulanguagesupport.blogspot.ca D2L: www.learn.viu.ca ...

When I worked in a school district with students with language disorders, my therapy sessions tended to work in language skills in one of tw...

Interestingly enough, the answer to this question is the same as it would be for any child with a language delay or disorder. We don’t real...

Earlier this year I had not been able to get the integrated translation feature which is supposed to be present in iOS 8, at least for Safar...

Time after time I see students whose only use of augmentative communication is for requesting. For many, this is perpetuated by PECS boards...

ASD is a neurodevelopment disorder. It’s wonderful just how far we have come in discovering what autism is and is not, and how it impacts t...